Independent Bookshops Chain to Close After 82 Years
Shepherd Express |
January 23, 2009
Shepherd Express
During a time when most of the country’s prominent alternative weekly newspapers have been consolidated and streamlined by corporations, the Shepherd Express has beat the odds, remaining locally owned. The paper has emerged from its unlikely beginning as a satirical...
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Farm Aid’s Changing Crusadenew
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Shepherd Express |
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When the financial tailspin of 2008 forced Alan Greenspan to confess that he was mistaken about the unshakable rationality and self-correcting nature of the economy, it was as if a Roman Catholic cardinal publicly doubted the divinity of Christ.
Shepherd Express |
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Shepherd Express |
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